{∅, {∅}, {∅, {∅}}} : Rage Against the Meat Grinder

A relatable essay, though I have to disagree with Schopenhauer not being objective. I think he had one of the most cold, rational eyes of all the philosophers. Viewing life from a microscope, so to speak. Him adding his own personal views, complaints and dark humor is just icing on the cake!

Maybe he will just never get the respect due to him. :/

Maybe Schopenhauer is destined to be "presented" as one of the "post-Apocolyptic Prophets," or, more likely, the/an "I N CA R N A T I O N" of Honest Observation and Appraisal of the "Predicament" we are all in (in having been born).    He's worthy of a cult following until the final predictable extinction of our strange, tormented, even, at times, elegant, species.  I am sure Schopenhauer would recognize in a worm a brother, a fellow-sufferer in the web of all that is.   He was very clear on his view that most human cultures and belief systems place too much importance on the DIFFERENCES between human animals/organisms and other animals/organisms, and that more is gleaned by focusing on the SIMILARITIES.

For instance, as a self-ordained Schopenhauer Disciple, I will make the rather crude but Schopenhauerian observation that both myself and Brother Worm consume living or once living matter into an orifice we'll call MOUTH and excrete waste of the most vile and disgusting quality.  The difference that worm-poop is microscopic for me, while my poops are gargantuan in comparison.   Disgusting, no?

But size is nothing when it comes to stench.

Which is worse ? - ? - the smell and danger in our own poop or the odor of a simple little potato hiding in a sack when it dies/ferments before its fellows?

Get the smell of either of the above on a finger, then smell the odor?   Horror.  This is what it all leads to: disgusting and offensive reality ... endless rot and decay ...

Society masks our animal reality, as you, Silenus, stated in a previous post elsewhere.   I wanted to respond, but did not ... always thinking of it though.

What was such a relief when I was much younger, reading Schopenhauer, the way he would openly discuss orgasm and other things many religious or scientific narratives either ignore or dehumanize with mechanistic/MACHINistic interprertations of universal life processes.  Sorry for the bullShit.

I was just trying to say that, rather than being offended by people discussing their hostility to the smell of their own sh it ...

I've been obsessed with code and math, fighting for time in between the STRESS and HARDSHIP coping with the Burden of our Own Existence - and those who depend on us [hold us hostage  ).

Take care All.  I suspect we are all a disaster away from reverting to savages within two weeks time without Electric Power, Running Water, etc ...  It is, as Ibra calls it, a Matrix we happen to be plugged into.   The "reality" is so fragile, and the Great Hallucinations require massive amounts of money and man-power to sustain on a daily basis.